Problem with one border...

I've a problem with the following:Can anybody tell me how to change the border of the debug screens (the ones that appear when you press the Tab+[key] combination)? When I changed the font, the border turned from blue into colourful one, which i don't like. Here's an example:Doesn't look good, eh? Please, good people, help.

This happens to me when I edit the VGAGRAPH sometimes. To fix it, go into ChaosEdit, open the VGAGraph tab, then click on the load VGAGraph editor button (9th one down, with the landmass pictue on it). Choose "load tile8s", which is what these dialog frames really are. Then open the Tile 8s tab to see what's going on. You'll recognize what is what when you see it.

You'll have to export them from a clean new VGAGraph and then import them into yours. Just make note of the position on each "tile8" and import them into the same order.If you can't figure out what the buttons in ChaosEdit do, just "hover" over them to find out.

Thanks. I'll try to use the info you gave me.I have one little question, about L-I-M code. Can't find anywhere to change the functions of it, and change the text that appears after pressing these keys.

Yeah, that's what I know. These are codes concerning the Tab+[key] codes. And I mean the the box that appears after typing the MLI code, that is the box that says that "Now you have 100% health and 99 ammo...." and so on. Can't find it anywhere.

@jayngo26 wrote:Hehe. Chokster, Chokster, Chokster. Such simple, sound logic has no place on a forum such as this...

Oops. I meant substitute each letter in the MLI message into this...

Then into this:

Then read this:

Quantum field theory (QFT)[1] provides a theoretical framework for constructing quantum mechanical models of systems classically described by fields or (especially in a condensed matter context) many-body systems. It is widely used in particle physics and condensed matter physics. Most theories in modern particle physics, including the Standard Model of elementary particles and their interactions, are formulated as relativisticquantum field theories. Quantum field theories are used in manycircumstances, especially those where the number of particlesfluctuates—for example, in the BCS theory of superconductivity.In perturbative quantum field theory, the forces between particles are mediated by other particles. The electromagnetic force between two electrons is caused by an exchange of photons. Intermediate vector bosons mediate the weak force and gluons mediate the strong force. There is currently no complete quantum theory of the remaining fundamental force, gravity, but many of the proposed theories postulate the existence of a graviton particle which mediates it. These force-carrying particles are virtual particlesand, by definition, cannot be detected while carrying the force,because such detection will imply that the force is not being carried.In addition, the notion of "force mediating particle" comes fromperturbation theory, and thus does not make sense in a context of boundstates.In QFT photons are not thought of as 'little billiard balls', they are considered to be field quanta - necessarily chunked ripples in a field that 'look like' particles. Fermions,like the electron, can also be described as ripples in a field, whereeach kind of fermion has its own field. In summary, the classicalvisualisation of "everything is particles and fields", in quantum fieldtheory, resolves into "everything is particles", which then resolvesinto "everything is fields". In the end, particles are regarded asexcited states of a field (field quanta).

In ordinary quantum mechanics, the time-dependent one-dimensional Schrödinger equation describing the time evolution of the quantum state of a single non-relativistic particle iswhere m is the particle's mass, V is the applied potential, and denotes the quantum state (we are using bra-ket notation).We wish to consider how this problem generalizes to N particles. There are two motivations for studying the many-particle problem. The first is a straightforward need in condensed matter physics, where typically the number of particles is on the order of Avogadro's number (6.0221415 x 1023). The second motivation for the many-particle problem arises from particle physics and the desire to incorporate the effects of special relativity. If one attempts to include the relativistic rest energy into the above equation (in quantum mechanics where position is an observable), the result is either the Klein-Gordon equation or the Dirac equation. However, these equations have many unsatisfactory qualities; for instance, they possess energy eigenvalues which extend to –∞, so that there seems to be no easy definition of a ground state.It turns out that such inconsistencies arise from relativisticwavefunctions having a probabilistic interpretation in position space,as probability conservation is not a relativistically covariantconcept. In quantum field theory, unlike in quantum mechanics, positionis not an observable, and thus, one does not need the concept of aposition-space probability density. For quantum fields whoseinteraction can be treated perturbatively, this is equivalent toneglecting the possibility of dynamically creating or destroyingparticles, which is a crucial aspect of relativistic quantum theory. Einstein's famous mass-energy relationallows for the possibility that sufficiently massive particles candecay into several lighter particles, and sufficiently energeticparticles can combine to form massive particles. For example, anelectron and a positron can annihilate each other to create photons. This suggests that a consistent relativistic quantum theory should be able to describe many-particle dynamics.Furthermore, we will assume that the N particles are indistinguishable. As described in the article on identical particles, this implies that the state of the entire system must be either symmetric (bosons) or antisymmetric (fermions)when the coordinates of its constituent particles are exchanged. Thesemulti-particle states are rather complicated to write. For example, thegeneral quantum state of a system of N bosons is written aswhere are the single-particle states, Nj is the number of particles occupying state j, and the sum is taken over all possible permutations p acting on N elements. In general, this is a sum of N! (N factorial) distinct terms, which quickly becomes unmanageable as N increases. The way to simplify this problem is to turn it into a quantum field theory.[edit] Second quantization

Main article: Second quantization

In this section, we will describe a method for constructing a quantum field theory called second quantization.This basically involves choosing a way to index the quantum mechanicaldegrees of freedom in the space of multiple identical-particle states.It is based on the Hamiltonian formulation of quantum mechanics; several other approaches exist, such as the Feynman path integral[3], which uses a Lagrangian formulation. For an overview, see the article on quantization.[edit] Second quantization of bosons

For simplicity, we will first discuss second quantization for bosons, which form perfectly symmetric quantum states. Let us denote the mutually orthogonal single-particle states by and so on. For example, the 3-particle state with one particle in state and two in state isThe first step in second quantization is to express such quantum states in terms of occupation numbers, by listing the number of particles occupying each of the single-particle states etc. This is simply another way of labelling the states. For instance, the above 3-particle state is denoted asThe next step is to expand the N-particle state space to include the state spaces for all possible values of N. This extended state space, known as a Fock space, is composed of the state space of a system with no particles (the so-called vacuum state),plus the state space of a 1-particle system, plus the state space of a2-particle system, and so forth. It is easy to see that there is aone-to-one correspondence between the occupation number representationand valid boson states in the Fock space.At this point, the quantum mechanical system has become a quantumfield in the sense we described above. The field's elementary degreesof freedom are the occupation numbers, and each occupation number isindexed by a number , indicating which of the single-particle states it refers to.The properties of this quantum field can be explored by defining creation and annihilation operators, which add and subtract particles. They are analogous to "ladder operators" in the quantum harmonic oscillatorproblem, which added and subtracted energy quanta. However, theseoperators literally create and annihilate particles of a given quantumstate. The bosonic annihilation operator a2 and creation operator have the following effects:It can be shown that these are operators in the usual quantum mechanical sense, i.e. linear operators acting on the Fock space. Furthermore, they are indeed Hermitian conjugates, which justifies the way we have written them. They can be shown to obey the commutation relationwhere δ stands for the Kronecker delta. These are precisely the relations obeyed by the ladder operators for an infinite set of independent quantum harmonic oscillators,one for each single-particle state. Adding or removing bosons from eachstate is therefore analogous to exciting or de-exciting a quantum ofenergy in a harmonic oscillator.The Hamiltonian of the quantum field (which, through the Schrödinger equation,determines its dynamics) can be written in terms of creation andannihilation operators. For instance, the Hamiltonian of a field offree (non-interacting) bosons iswhere Ek is the energy of the k-th single-particle energy eigenstate. Note that[edit] Second quantization of fermions

It turns out that a different definition of creation and annihilation must be used for describing fermions. According to the Pauli exclusion principle, fermions cannot share quantum states, so their occupation numbers Ni can only take on the value 0 or 1. The fermionic annihilation operators c and creation operators are defined by their actions on a Fock state thusThese obey an anticommutation relation:One may notice from this that applying a fermionic creation operatortwice gives zero, so it is impossible for the particles to sharesingle-particle states, in accordance with the exclusion principle.Feynman, R.P. (2001) [1964]. The Character of Physical Law. MIT Press. ISBN 0262560038.

OK, now tell me one more thing that interests me. I saw this trick in Spear Revisited. When you pick up an item or kill somebody, the information appears in the top corner, saying "You picked up an ammo clip" or "You killed a guard". How can I get this effect?

@Andy wrote:This happens to me when I edit the VGAGRAPH sometimes. To fix it, go into ChaosEdit, open the VGAGraph tab, then click on the load VGAGraph editor button (9th one down, with the landmass pictue on it). Choose "load tile8s", which is what these dialog frames really are. Then open the Tile 8s tab to see what's going on. You'll recognize what is what when you see it.

You'll have to export them from a clean new VGAGraph and then import them into yours. Just make note of the position on each "tile8" and import them into the same order.If you can't figure out what the buttons in ChaosEdit do, just "hover" over them to find out.

Hope this helps,Andy

It took me a while to understand this, but I too was able to fix my borders. They had been messed up ever since I first added to the VGAGraph almost 2 years ago. Thanks! It's something minor, but now that small problem is off my mind!